[Cosmo-media] stuff for a film for the EU commission or something similar

[Boud Roukema]

media stuff

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> Date: Thu, 8 Dec 2005 15:35:17 +0100 (CET)
> From: Boud Roukema <...
> To: Eugeniusz Pazderski <...
> Subject: stuff for a film for the EU commission or something similar
>
> The WMAP observations of the cosmic microwave background suggest that
> the shape of the Universe is that of the Poincare dodecahedral space.
> The red and blue curves show the location and amplitude of temperature
> fluctuations in nearly opposite parts of the sky. As expected by the
> hypothesis, these temperature fluctuations seem to have nearly equal
> values, even though they come from oppose parts of the sky.

Should be:

values, even though they come from opposite parts of the sky.

>
> For more information, see Roukema, Lew, Cechowska, Marecki & Bajtlik,
> 2004, "A hint of Poincare dodecahedral topology in the WMAP first year
> sky map, Astronomy & Astrophysics, 423, 821

the picture is here:

http://cosmo.torun.pl/twiki/pub/Cosmo/OswiadczeniePrasoweDodekahedron/dodec_popular.jpg

pozdr
boud